Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa

Preface Introduction 1. Art War with the State: Writers and Guardians of a Postcolonial Society 2. Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: The Conflict Between the Crafts of Art and the State 3. Enacting Power: The Politics of the Performance State 4. Voicing Silence: Language, Democracy, and a New World Order 5. Renaissance or Orature: Freeing Creativity from the Literary Colonisation of Orality Conclusion